Patients & families

More support is needed for families caring for former athletes living with neurodegenerative disease, a new study has revealed. 

An organisation established in response to the lack of community-based brain injury support is now helping to change the reality for survivors across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. 

A survivor who lost both her job and home after her stroke is rebuilding her life after finding salvation in surfing. 

Having had a stroke and lost his job within a week, Adrian Day is now committed to showing others there is hope even during the bleakest of times. 

A woman who had to learn to walk again after a brain tumour has completed the virtual London Marathon. 

A former opera singer who was paralysed from the neck down has been able to perform again following an extensive rehabilitation programme comprising “therapy, perseverance and hope”.

“This is a different life and we need help to live it”

A national initiative has been launched to help increase the support, advice and resources for families affected by acquired brain injury (ABI).

Former military police officer and Blesma member Lesley Stewart spent many years in agonising pain, and eventually lost her leg, due to undiagnosed dystonia. Read her incredible story of coming back from years of struggle to compete in the Paralympics